Pharmacy Technician Medicines Optimisation | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a pharmacy technician to provide medicines management services in a prison setting. The successful candidate will work towards accreditation as a checking technician and must be willing to complete National Security Vetting. Qualifications include an Accredited Checking Technician (ACT) or Medicines Management qualification. Strong attention to detail and adherence to procedures are essential.

Benefits

NHS pension benefits

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting.
• Need to provide proof of right to work documentation.
• Relevant ID and address history required.

Responsibilities

• Provide medicines optimisation service to HMP Wandsworth.
• Undertake medicines reconciliation and dispense prescriptions.
• Ensure adherence to Standard Operating Procedures.

Education

Accredited Checking Technician (ACT)

Medicines Management (MM) qualification

Job description

As part of our pharmacy service (OPS), you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is a mental health and community trust that provides a wide and growing range of services across the boroughs of Bexley, Greenwich and Bromley and also services in Kent. Oxleas Prison Services Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and provides the pharmacy services to the prison pharmacy contracts. Due to the recent contract award from NHS England we are now providing pharmacy services to the Wandsworth Prison and are recruiting to newly established posts.

The pharmacy department has a long history of innovation, with established prescribing guidelines, excellent relationships with medical staff, a strong culture of leading clinical audit and research projects and an excellent publication record. All of these attributes we wish to extend to the prison pharmacy services.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

If you are a pharmacy technician wishing to gain experience in medicines management and administration work in a prison setting, this post could be for you. The post-holder will provide medicines management services to the prison house blocks on rotation and will also work in the dispensaries as an integral part of the pharmacy team.

Qualifications

We are looking for candidates with either of the following qualifications:

• Accredited Checking Technician (ACT)
• Medicines Management (MM) qualification

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• To provide a medicines optimisation service to HMP Wandsworth with the professional support of a prison services pharmacist.
• To undertake medicines reconciliation for prisoners admitted to GMP Wandsworth, dispense prescriptions and stock items when in the dispensary.
• To work towards accreditation as a checking technician and/or medicines optimisation to provide final dispensing checks and medicines administration services.
• To ensure high standards of work in the dispensary, in clinics and when out on the wings and to ensure all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are read and adhered to.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ

• All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.

You will need to provide

• Proof of right to work documentation
• Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
• Proof of address documentation
• Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
• 5 years address history
• Applicants that are not UK Passport holders and provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate in English from where they resided previously.
• Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants. If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).

This advert closes on Thursday 20 Nov 2025